The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27

the subscriber, the advertiser, whoever
reads the paper-except only the man
who borrows it.
The wise men recognize the fact that
| journalism has grown to be teacher
without education, q learned profession
without college or course of study,
skilled trade without a training
school, and recognizing this, they have
deemed it wise and necessary thing
that schools Of journalism shall be es-
tablished in which men of education
and talent shall be prepared for the
! profession of journalism as carefully
and thoroughly as they are now pre-
| pared to practice law and medicine, to
teach AID to preach.
And out OF all this great wilderness of
news, this chaos of gossip, of chatter, of
prize tighter and opera-singer, Anar-
chlst and peace society, burlesque
actress and home missionary, sporting
events and theology, crime and Christ
lanlty, vice and virtue, vile rubbish and
pure gold, out of all this can there
come anything goodP
believe the net influence of the
newspaper is for good. There is much
to be welded out. much that is friyo-
lous, coarse and bad. The newspaper
is not the advance courier of the mil
lennium, but do believe its tendency
and its net influence is good. No man
fears the dreadful newspaper boss"
unless he has something in his mind
and plans that he breads to have dis
covered. The daily paper is not a reli
glous teacher; that is not one of its
functions. The editor does sometimes
preach, but when he does he breaches a
vague, wild, unintelIigibie theology
that passeth the understanding of the
layman, and is marvellous in the ewes of
the ministry. AS a rule, lay preaching
is mainly to the ediicatIon of the
preachers self. But in its own sphere
the newspaper is an active ally of the
tween Christian Sabbath and goddess
Sunday, between morality and vice, the
influence of the newspaper is cast on
the side of the right.
Reputable journalism can be held re-
sponsible for the scalawag papers no
more than the Christian Church can be
acid responsible for the bad men who
make hypocritical profession OF reli-
glon. A good newspaper is a public
conscience. There are men who have
no lear OF doing wrong who are held in
check by the dread of exposure. The
is the only conscience of the |
who knows but one command.
ment Thou shalt not be found out"
Often 1t is even the partisan paper that |
rebukes what is wrong party methods. |
When the independents determined to |
ther were at no expense to |
establish new journals, for party papers, |
well established and influential, went |
out before them and led them out. If |
1t shall become proper for them to re- |
turn, the newspapers will go at the head |
Of the column. The newspaper makes |
mistakes. Nothing is infalIible about |
the newspaper except the man who |
could edit It, but never does. The
newspaper might be better-[At this
point the three-minute warning bell
rang and the sneaker remarked: THAT
s not the first chestnut bell that has
been rung on me. " and think it will
pc. l think it shoTs steady improve
nept. Ii, sometimes, in fight of I'M
chained fancy, it somewhat exsgger-
ates its own circulation, it generally
strikes fair average by Underestimate
ng that of its loathsome contemporary.
md by and by the average Ill be more
Justly established and divided. The
newspaper is growing in wisdom, in
sense of business and fairness; ina finer
Of its own responsibility
md influence; in everything that VIII
make it a lea Ter and molder of public
thought, and not a mere follower of the
passing whim or craze of the crowd.
And hope, even as believe that the
world is growing better and thst the
newspaper Of to-day will go on increas-
ng in wisdom and strength and truth
Until it may become what it should be,
lot an echo of the voice of the people,
or an echo is weak and unmeaning;
lot the voice of the people, because the
dice of the people may be, and some
lines is, unreasoning and wrong. but
he still small voice of a conscience that
ebukes the clamor of a wrong headed
nultitude, and calls men out of the
torn of passion or the calm of indif-
erence up to their nobler, wiser and
etter msnhoo6.-Indianapolis Journal.
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